Buckeye Field Office

Landowner: Jesse Powell, Pocahontas County

Program: Cultural Resource Preservation

Overview:  The Buckeye Field Office provided assistance to landowner Jesse Powell in obtaining a West Virginia Division of Culture and History Grant. This grant allowed for the protection of a portion of the Camp Bartow Historic District, a National Register property consisting of at least 20 individual sites. These sites include the farmstead Traveler’s Repose, several civil war sites, cemeteries, and sections of the Staunton Parkersburg Turnpike. The portions of the site that were protected included Civil War gun emplacements, trenches, and Yeager Cemetery. Approximately $2,900.00 was given through the grant to allow building of a livestock exclusion fence and seeding of a portion of the site that was being used for pasture. NRCS also provided technical supervision during installation of the fence and seeding the critical area.

Community Benefits: Building a fence and stabilizing critically eroding areas protected Civil War historical sites.

Contact: For additional information call the NRCS Buckeye Field Office between 8:00-4:30 at (304) 799-7289.


                   
 Troup Trench                                                    Livestock Exclusion Fence

 
 

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